We stick by our trial

From
Matthew Barrett, Editor, Horizon, BBC TV

We could not help feeling that Robert Matthews’s article claiming that our homeopathy trial was “flawed” was rather mischievous (7 December, p 10). He made no mention of the fact that the experiment was performed to the satisfaction of two of Britain’s top laboratories and under the guidance of John Enderby. All agreed that it was a valid test of the “memory of water” hypothesis.

The sole criticism voiced by Madeleine Ennis – that the sample size was too small – was particularly strange since our sample size was, we believe, at least as large as the one she …